Hi!
I start this topic to see if there are other than me that is using the Rock 4SE. I was very grateful to see that it was possible to download an image for this board. I have only seen postings here about different problems, so maybe this will bring some hope for someone that have this collecting dust.
Bought it on discount for about 300 Swedish money and then bought an 32GB eMMC module from Amazon and a mounting kit for NVMe drive. I had a spare 2TB WD Black SN770 that I with help of Dietpi tool got the root file system moved to.
Got an aluminum case for passive cooling, that does not work too well but solved with an 120MM USB driven fan. With the lowest speed it is almost not possible to notice it and the temp goes down from about +50 to around +32 running idle. No overclocking, but maybe there is some room for that?
The speed test done with Dietpi’s own util does not impress me much. The most dispapointing ones is those on the NVMe drive that I know is able to do alot faster that it does on this board. Much slower that Raspberry Pi 5 that I have mounted in a Argon case.
When I first booted up the this system I had it boot from a 64GB memory card, keyboard and mouse via USB hubb and a 4K 32" monitor and network cable. The monitor was lit, but there was nothing to see on the screen so I had to do a network scan where I found it and looged in via ssh and did futher configuration on the system there from. As I intend to have it running as some kind of server so do I not care of none working monitor output and haven’t looked for a solution on it either.
I would like to see if there is some way have it improved in performance, especially the file transfers that is rather slow.
- CPU performance : Duration = 9.30 seconds
- CPU temps : Idle = 33 C | Full load = 41 C
- RootFS I/O : 19 MiB/s | Read = 20 MiB/s
- RAM I/O : Write = 575 MiB/s | Read = 1320 MiB/s
eMMC module, 100MB test file
Write = 56 MiB/s
Read = 82 MiB/s
WD Black, SN770, 2TB, 100MB test file
Write = 127 MiB/s
Read = 203 MiB/s
Well, I think that was all for now. Hope this can be of use to some.
Kind regards